Andrew rapidly intensified and made landfall as a Cat 5… 32 years ago.

Explain that, “unprecedented” hysteria crowd.

I follow both but prefer Denis.

Make sure you get a spare bedroom for me & the Mrs.

Why can't someone just pull the power plug on the "weather machine?"

Really of no worry I would think. They aren't very aggressive. Looks like about 2 or 3 people a year die from alligators. Around 10 die from brain eating amoeba. I'd be more worried about that.

Cuz you'll eventually have to plug it back in...

You're right, **** it. Milton is no big deal.

Of course it’s a big deal… what it is not is a new phenomenon.

See Hurricane Andrew.

1992.

Didn't you make up a fake girlfriend and post pics of a random cam girl as proof?

Denis of course

Here’s something I got in a notification about evacuating…….

Florida says if you can't get out of a mandatory evacuation area, write your personal info on your arm so they can identify the body.

What's the contingency plan if you have no arms, or they are ripped off in the hurricane?

That’s a helpful tip!

yep, Anna Marie looks to be a direct hit. We love that town. It has that Key West feel to it. White soft sand beaches. Really cool and unique shops.

It's flat there. That'll be huge loss to see it take a direct hit.

Siesta Beach Sarasota County. Ground zero for where the eye is going to land according to CNN:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/storm-tracker/

Can't embed live video for this one:

https://www.youtube.com/live/NLhxcyz...zEXFzc7SMzsByZ

I love the be sitting on the top floor of a 20 something story hotel right off the beach with a birds eye view watching a CAT 5 slowly come into view. I'd demand bullet proof glass and a generator but boy would that be a once in a lifetime experience.

Must be a bunch of bird food being washed onto shore for that kind of gathering in such weather.

Write it on your dick. If you no longer have a dick, life’s not worth living anymore.

Yeah, those tall condo buildings(if built in the late 90’s or newer) are the best places to ride out a hurricane. They have to be rated to withstand a Cat5 or they don’t get built over a certain height.

I have seen anyone say it's a new phenomenon. Most people are aware that category 4 and 5 hurricanes existed prior to Milton.

Very little rain and wind down here in Key West today but everybody got the day off.

Is that normal for the water to recede like that?

When I was looking at this feed earlier the "shore line" was much further inland.

Anyone want to go surfing?

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We live just outside of Jacksonville.....and I am glad that we moved here. I grew tired of snow and ice and the sub zero temps in the heartland.

We moved here in October of 2016....3 days later while we were still unboxing things Hurricane Matthew hit. We were lucky and never lost power. Our neighborhood is about 50 miles inland from the coast so most of what we saw was a lot of rain and some high winds. The same time the following year we had Hurricane Irma and lost power fir 2 hours.

We are lucky where we live...a power substation near our neighborhood with all the power lines underground. All this to say that where you live can play a factor in how enjoyable life in Florida can be.

I am glad we moved here....it beats shoveling snow, scraping ice off my windshield or wearing heavy coats in winter weather. I can play golf year round and have pretty much gotten rid of all my winter gear...

Yes it is freaking hot in the summer...but eventually you get used to it.(Except on game day when the Jags play the Chiefs in Aug/September and it is over 100 degrees. )

I've actually been to Siesta key so that's lame.

To add....I grew up outside of KC in a small town that flooded with regularity every year for the most part. All it took was a 2 day rain and we had to evacuate....and Tornado Watches/Warnings were all too common in the spring/summer.

Weather is bad no matter where you live...it just depends on your ability to tolerate the inconvenience.

They also have a height restriction on buildings, which means no huge condos. We love going there, too.

Any good feeds? Watching this dude. Seems to be a few significant tornadoes on the ground.

<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-V_YnmER0Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-V_YnmER0Y</a>

The overall lifestyle change from the midwest can't be overstated (personally talking AZ, but a lot of the same applies to FL)... it's still amazing to me that Arizona can go months without significant cloud cover, much less rain. . Golf, camping, hiking, ATVs, all year... even simple things like grilling outdoors, sitting outside to eat, opening up the house, etc.

Talked to 4 Floridians in the past 24 hours; 1 in Tampa, 2 in Ft Meyers and 1 in Orlando.

They are all very nervous and taking this very serious after what happened in North Carolina a few weeks back.

They are trying to find ways to minimize damage but not so easy. :grouphug: :grovel:

Alligator Alley in far western Broward…

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GZdENtaX...jpg&name=large

Ryan Hall is a good watch for any type of extreme weather.

I don’t know if this is the same tornado or not, this was in the Everglades a few hours ago.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Just saw a tornado forming over the Everglades from the turnpike <a href="https://t.co/JKRknLUKtK">pic.twitter.com/JKRknLUKtK</a></p>&mdash; trisarahtops (@sarahlo_aww) <a href="https://twitter.com/sarahlo_aww/status/1844012080669835277?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

It depends on which side of the storm you're on. South side = water gets pushed onshore, North side = water gets pulled out.

Gonna be a real bitch for Floridians to get homeowners after these 2 storms.

It already was

We need a Live feed link in the OP.

It's only a matter of time until there is no homeowners insurance in Florida, among other places.

Hurricane tornadoes are generally very weak. Almost no chance of anything EF3 or higher like we see in the Midwest.

Ah....survive.

I added the ones already in the thread. If you have requests let me or a mod know. I'm going to be in and out (that's what she said) however.

Tornado warnings all around us in the Stuart, FL area and it’s early yet.

Sunshine Skyway Bridge


Bridge closed

A friend of mine just let me know a tornado took out a manufactured home community in North Fort Myers. This was a tornado in that area but not sure it it’s the same one that hit the manufactured home place.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Big tornado wrecking havoc on southwest Florida. Fort Myers and north fort Myers specifically. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/HurricaneMilton?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#HurricaneMilton</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ReedTimmerUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ReedTimmerUSA</a> <a href="https://t.co/iSGbG0UBsa">pic.twitter.com/iSGbG0UBsa</a></p>&mdash; Brian Conley (@B_conley25) <a href="https://twitter.com/B_conley25/status/1844061688578048343?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Thanks Otter, you're a gentleman and a scholar.

What can’t BWille be wrong about??

Man that's his gimmick.

You have just about as many cars on that bridge coming as they are going.

I thought they told people to get the hell out of there.

They closed the bridges a couple hours ago

I misunderstood it as a Live feed, my bad.

How was it wrong? Nowhere did I say there wouldn't be tornadoes. They are just much less violent than midwest tornadoes.

"Usually, tornadoes produced by tropical cyclones are relatively weak and short-lived, but they still pose a significant threat."

https://www.weather.gov/cae/tropical...icant%20threat.

"In general, tornadoes associated with hurricanes are relatively weak and short lived, especially in comparison to those that occur over the Great Plains"

https://www.weather.gov/cae/tropical...icant%20threat.

The early effects of the hurricane are interacting with another weather system/front to create these stronger than normal hurricane-related tornadoes.

Never happen. The state will step in. Tourists are why we have no state tax. Without Insurance all those places on the beach don’t exist. It’s in the states own interest to provide insurance.

I live about a mile from that bridge.

Florida has never even had a EF5 tornado and only two ever EF4 tornadoes.

Hopefully they stay as weak as possible ��

Will Floridians accept such blatant socialism in their state? Not to be political, but it goes against everything many Floridians stand for.

It could still go up like 25 percent or so on top of the current rate that's been jacked up. It adds up BRC.

dude.........

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">If this isn’t a definite warning to evacuate, I don’t know what is. Pray for Florida 😥 <a href="https://t.co/YsPGBX4xrC">pic.twitter.com/YsPGBX4xrC</a></p>&mdash; Today Years Old (@todayyearsoldig) <a href="https://twitter.com/todayyearsoldig/status/1844103765567340560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Looks like Milton lost some cats and is weaking fast.

Not surprised when it hit that dryer sheared air.

Looks like this hurricane brings out the worst in some people.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">FHP Troopers rescued a dog left tied to a pole on I-75 near Bruce B Downs Blvd this morning. Do NOT do this to your pets please… <a href="https://t.co/8cZJOfkJL2">pic.twitter.com/8cZJOfkJL2</a></p>&mdash; FHP Tampa (@FHPTampa) <a href="https://twitter.com/FHPTampa/status/1844036069219574083?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 9, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Maybe the Haitians took them

They be hungry. Fleas be dammed.

That is sadistic. Find the address of whoever owns that dog and beat them to death.

I'm sure it was a mistake like lampoons vacation

Probably fake news is my guess.

People aren’t tying animals to light poles on interstates.

get em dry air!

Yeah, I'm sure the trooper has nothing better to do than stage a fake rescue video for internet points.

Dry air is the devil.

No cat4 landfall for you!

You get no cats. You get no cats.

All this cat 5 hype biggest disaster in the history of the world by the media is crumbling.

Yeah I see a bunch with the diagram showing it going back to Cat4 before landfall.. There is ZERO chance at this point.

It will make landfall as a Cat 3, and a LOW end cat3 at that. We lucked out, had the dry air and sheer not existed could have been really bad.

I have to be missing something.

Hasn't it always been always known that it was going to rapidly strengthen to a CAT 5 then as it approached land weaken to a CAT 3/4? I mean I've known it for at least 5 days - does that mean I'm in the "know"?

Not much worry at all unless they get over like 8-10 feet. At that point they’ll eat anything.

Otherwise the only worry is for small children, elderly and animals.

Wow, that is some next level ****ed up shit.

I have more respect for the assholes who drop their dogs off in a rural area when they don’t want them.. and I don’t have any respect for those assholes either.

No chance it intensifies before land fall. Too much upper level shear and dry air it’s pulling in.

It might not even be a 3 at land fall. It’s already dropped against in the last 30 minutes.

It’s gonna be a mess with stuff. But the shear media driven panic is so pathetic. Crying wolf all the time is dangerously misinformation.

I mean yes, the possibility of it weakening was always there. Hence why the weather forecasters crying on live tv was crazy.

But it was never 100%

I remember living on eglin AFB when opal as a 3 hit. It was wild. But we survived.

It's definitely weakening with 120mph winds. It won't really help those on the coast, but hopefully it'll minimize the damage inland

This isn’t a once in a life time hurricane. jFC Fox News. Drama misinformation much?

That you mrs VP?

It's been all over the local news here

It's close enough that it's still going to have high end CAT 4 storm surge which is where a ton of the issues come from. Exact same thing happened with Katrina as it came in as a 3 as well but had the heavy storm surge as it weakened as it came in.